Highways and provincial roads

Highway/road classification is intended to give the map viewer some idea of how quickly and/or easily a road will get him/her from one place to another. Necessarily, this is sometimes somewhat of a subjective call. However, to encourage consistency, we need a starting point and some clear criteria. Just be aware there are times a road doesn't clearly fit one or another classification. In these cases we rely on the mapper who has hopefully driven the road to make a judgment call.

Motorway: Numbered interprovincial highways (e.g. highways that get you to the next province or state such as 1, 16), where twinned/divided.

Trunk: Numbered interprovincial highways (e.g. highways 1, 7, 16), where not twinned/divided. Twinned highways that continue into or through a city with a speed limit of 90km/h or more, and with no traffic restrictions (roundabouts, traffic lights, yield or stop signs) may be marked as Trunk. Trunk or Motorway highways within cities that don't meet these requirements should be tagged as Primary.

Primary: Provincial highways (numbers 1-39 and 41, not including those already classified as trunk. Generally, these are class 1 roads drawn in red on the rural road class PDF above.). Major twinned provincial highways can be promoted to trunk. Really major twinned highways between two large cities can be promoted to Motorway. (e.g. highway 11 between Saskatoon and Regina or highway 2 between Calgary and Edmonton) Un-twinned provincial highways should remain primary. All primary or higher highway routes through cities should be tagged as Primary.

Highways and Provincial roads - UPDATED 2013

The highways and provincial roads section needs updating. I'm working on a new standard. If you wish to join in this process, please join the Google+ group called "OpenStreetMap Saskatachewan"
--Keypunch (talk) 16:45, 17 February 2014 (UTC)